Lingvo Cup will start next week.

April 19 ends the registration for the fourth online translation championship with the dictionary "Lingvo Cup", which is conducted by our company.



Schoolchildren over the age of 16, students of all forms of education, as well as graduate students who received a diploma not earlier than 2009 from Russia and other countries can take part in the competition.



The tournament will be held in 2 stages: April 20-21 and May 19, 2011. In the first round, the finalists of the “Cup” will be determined, the second will reveal the champion and another 29 winners who have demonstrated the most outstanding results.

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The tournament is as follows: on the appointed day and time, the participants enter their personal account on the site www.kubok.lingvo.ru and in 40 minutes translate the text of 900 printed characters. You can choose from texts in several languages ​​- English, French, German and Spanish (the latter was added only this year). The subject of texts is the widest. In the English section, these are “Society and Politics”, “History and Economics”, “Mathematics and Physics” and “IT”. For the rest of the languages, the last two topics are replaced by another - “Natural sciences”. When translating participants can use a special trial version of the dictionary ABBYY Lingvo x3.



Traditionally, the winners are determined by a jury composed of heads of foreign languages ​​departments and leading teachers of Moscow State University. Lomonosova, MGIMO, RUDN and SU-HSE, the permanent chairman of the jury is the director of the linguistic products department of ABBYY Alexander Rylov.



Winners are expected not only fame and honor, but also valuable prizes and gifts. The winner of the “Lingvo Cup 2011” will have the opportunity to spend two weeks in the country of the language being studied - Great Britain, Germany, France or Spain. The solemn presentation of the “Lingvo Cup 2011” and prizes will be held in June 2011.



We started this project in 2008, a little more than two thousand people from 17 countries participated in the very first “Cup”. In three years, the number of participants more than doubled - in 2010, 4,600 young people from 30 countries “fought” for the cup, including Russia, the USA, Canada, Israel, South Korea, the CIS countries and Europe. Only in our country championship covered more than 300 cities.



You can register here .

Terms of participation are posted here .

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Sveta Luzgina

Corporate Communications Service